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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00)
Job ref
364-A-7649
Employer
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Mid Essex STaRS - Mansard House
Town
Chelmsford
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust logo

Substance Misuse Nurse

Band 5

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

  • We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
  • We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

  • We Care
  • We Learn
  • We Empower

Our strategic objectives

  • We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
  • We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
  • We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
  • We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

  • Mental Health Services
  • Community Health Services
  • Learning Disabilities Services
  • Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory. 

Job overview

You will work as a member of Essex STaRS in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic nursing care to service users in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will jointly assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist prescribing packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Independent Non-Medical Prescriber as per NICE guidance.

Main duties of the job

Band 5 Substance Misuse Nurse

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic motivated individual to join our Chelmsford based  team.  This post can either be a developmental post for a newly qualified Band 5  or can be offered to an experienced  mental health or general nurse with an interest in the substance misuse field.

The service promotes life long learning and opportunities for continuing professional development 

We work with patients with opiate and alcohol misuse issues in partnership with other agencies.

We offer opiate substitute prescribing and ambulatory detox and provide holistic treatments that includes physical health assessments, BBV vaccinations and drug screening.

Working for our organisation

The successful candidate will be working as part of a multi disciplinary team. They will be part of a small team working across the Mid Essex area of the county. The team are very caring, compassionate and service user focused.

There is a wonderful work ethic in the office with a caring and warm welcome waiting for the successful candidate.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY
You will work as a member of Essex STaRS in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic nursing care to service users in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will jointly assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist prescribing packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Independent Non-Medical Prescriber as per NICE guidance. 

As required by your Team Manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day supervision and management of lower banded staff within your professional group and team locality. This will include the management of these staff in line with agreed Trust HR processes.

Person specification

qualified

Essential criteria
  • qualified nursing degree
  • compassion and why you want to work for our team
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working in substance misuse

years experience

Essential criteria
  • years experience
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of substance misuse

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveDisability confident leaderImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Essex Family Friendly Employers

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dana Thomas
Job title
Clinical Lead/ Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01245 338837
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